Foreign Desk | April 4, 1996, Thursday
CRASH IN THE BALKANS: THE OVERVIEW;COMMERCE SECRETARY AMONG 33 LOST IN A CROATIA
PLANE CRASH
By R. W. APPLE Jr. (NYT) 1415 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 6
LEAD PARAGRAPH - A military plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown
and a delegation of American corporate executives slammed into a mountainside
today as it approached the airport at Dubrovnik, on the Adriatic coast of Croatia.
Chances that Mr. Brown had survived were "next to zero," a White House
official said after more than 12 hours of rescue efforts.
Clambering over rocky, rugged terrain, working by flashlight in pelting rain,
Croatian search parties found nine bodies and one survivor, described by a Dubrovnik
doctor at the scene as "a woman who was bleeding profusely." She died
later, Croatian officials said.
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